Switched to the table-based Newsflash section on the home page.
The vast majority of responses were positive; the only complaints came
from users of NCSA Mosaic for X, which has had extremely broken table
support recently. However, such users can upgrade to the latest beta
release of Mosaic, which should make the Newsflash section readable.
Users of non-table-enabled browsers probably won't notice any
difference.

Some episode pages have been shuffled around in the past couple days.
If you select an episode and get a different episode's page, use
your browser's reload function and you should get the right page.

I'm considering a slight format change to the Newsflash section on
the home page. Have a look at the
alternate version
and let me know if you object. I know some people are pretty
religious about not using tables for formatting, but this is
tabular information. In particular I want to know if it breaks
anyone's browser; I believe I've structured it such that it'll look
fine on browsers without table support. (No need to tell me it works
in Netscape.) If you're using Mosaic for X, you might want to upgrade
to the latest beta release, which doesn't break horribly on tables like
the most recent previous releases have.

A batch of
JMS GEnie messages
from September and October (mostly October) is online. If
any GEnie users out there have been saving JMS' messages, please
let me know; the archive is missing a lot of them.

The last several months' worth of
JMS CompuServe messages
are now searchable via the
Find page.
Earlier messages won't be indexed for a while since they're stored
in the archive in a different format.

October 19, 1995

A new version of the
writers/directors list
has been installed. It uses tables, but is designed to look
nearly as good on browsers without any table support. (It breaks on
recent versions of NCSA Mosaic for X, which has severely buggy
tables.)

October 18, 1995

The
Cache Loader
page now exists. Visit it before you explore the Guide and you'll
preload most of the navigational images into your browser for faster
access. There's a link to it toward the bottom of the home page.

The Last Updated List is back in a much friendlier, more useful
form. See the link near the top of this page.

A new version of the
station/airtime list
is online. I have taken over maintaining the list; please send me
corrections and additions. The list is also now available via
the Air Times page
in the Reference section.

A new version of Edwin Yau's
UK episode guide
is available on the FTP server. Presumably it contains major
spoilers for the final four episodes.

August 20, 1995

Steven Orso
<snorso@facstaff.wisc.edu>
has scoured the JMS archives from top to bottom and come
up with hundreds of new items for the "jms speaks" sections of just
about all the episode-guide pages, especially first-season ones.
See them in the
Episodes
section of the Guide.

The
Other Resources
page now has an extensive list of B5 articles in British magazines.
Thanks to Peter McQuillan.

A separate schedule for
Melbourne
is available, since it doesn't match up with the schedule
in the rest of Australia.

August 12, 1995

The
"The Episodes"
link from the home page will now take you to the appropriate episode
list for your country, if your domain name indicates which country
you're connecting from. If you get the US/Canada episode list and
there's an active schedule page for your country, please
send me mail
and I can update the guide to know where your particular domain is.
You can get to a list of countries from any schedule page.

Hyperion's Web server should be much, much faster now; we're getting
connectivity from
Interactive Marketing Ventures,
resulting in significantly higher available bandwidth than we had
before. As a result, a lot of the links that used to point to the
ftp.uml.edu
mirror site are now local instead. We hope you enjoy the new, faster
Lurker's Guide. Please let us know if you encounter any problems
with our new setup.

The This Week's Episode
link from the home page should work reliably through caching
proxy gateways now. Some people had complained that their
proxy servers weren't noticing when it was changed to point
to new episodes. (It may take a little while for this change
to be noticed by your proxy, but after that there shouldn't
be a problem. If you're getting an old episode's page from
the link, try hitting your browser's reload button.)

B5 has been renewed for a third season. As announced on America
Online:

Date: 95-06-08 22:22:38 EDT

Well you can all relax, break out the champagne, or
whatever your pleasure is -- we got official notification
for the third season this afternoon. We're good for 22
more eps. Prep will start next week, and we intend to
start production in late July. The third season will
premiere in Nov. We feel pretty good here, I hope all
of you do as well. Thanks to all of you fans for
your support. We'll try to live up to your expectations.

Bad news: PTEN is showing reruns until October, delaying the
last four season-two episodes until just before season three. Please
don't complain to the Lurker's Guide about this -- we have absolutely
no influence on the matter. The best thing to do is probably
to write to your local TV station.
Or plan a vacation to the
UK,
where the last four episodes will start airing in just over three
weeks.

The current week's episode (for the US) is now available at a
constant URL,
<http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/guide/current.html>.
You can add it to your hotlist if you like; it'll be changed once
a week. Thanks to Juliet C. Bourne for suggesting it.

March 26, 1995

Added a schedule for
Belgium.
The pilot movie is scheduled for March 27 at 7:35PM, with the
series starting the next night at the same time.

I've been informed that KCOP, the Los Angeles B5 station, won't
be showing
"GROPOS"
this week due to other programming. Calling the station and
asking them to show it is probably a good idea if you live in LA
and want to see it. (I've also been told that it will be shown
Saturday at 8:00 and is only preempted on Thursday.)

Started retooling the episode guide pages to conform to the Guide's
new look. Pages up to
"Grail"
have been updated so far; more are on their way.

As part of the retooling, added a "Background" link to the guide
pages that gives a short summary of the overall storyline up to
but not including the episode you link from. The text of the
summary is mostly taken from the latest version of the FAQ List.
Useful if you're just starting to watch the show and want to know
what's gone on before the episode you're about to see.

JMS Usenet messages
from September 1994 through (part of) January 1995 are available
on the FTP server.

January 20, 1995

Reorganized the
US episode list
page slightly, so it's more intuitive (I hope) and more compact.
Let me know if you think it's significantly better or worse; if
reaction is positive, I'll apply the same general idea to other
parts of the Guide to streamline it.